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The study of subjective well-being and related concepts such as life satisfaction, happiness and fulfillment, is booming in several fields of inquiry. As a sub-domain of subjective well-being, travel satisfaction, which refers to people’s evaluation of transport services and travel experiences, has recently been established as a major area of travel behavior research. In this paper, the relationship between subjective well-being and travel satisfaction will be addressed. To identify this relationship, data were collected in January of 2015 in Xi’an, China using a random sampling procedure. The questionnaire included questions about the respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics, overall life satisfaction, satisfaction with different life domains, and questions about personality and eudaimonic well-being. A structural equation model was estimated to find the relationships between domain-specific well-being, including travel satisfaction, and subjective well-being. In addition, socio-demographic variables and the personality of individuals were taken into account to investigate their effects on travel satisfaction and subjective well-being. Results indicate that travel satisfaction isn’t positively correlated with subjective well-being. On the other hand, subjective well-being seems to significantly influence travel satisfaction.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADD20 Standing Committee on Social and Economic Factors of Transportation.

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17-03194

English

16p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Customer satisfaction; Personality; Psychological aspects; Socioeconomic factors; Structural equation modeling; Travel

Highways; Safety and Human Factors

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-03194

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:11AM